To be horrified at a tiny baby's dummy being dipped in Mr Whippy ice cream????

[Twelvelegs]

At a shopping centre today (during the working day) and I walked past a family of five, two girls both with dummies (one of which looked close to school age). The middle child under parents advice dipped her tiny baby brother's dummy (not old enough to sit up or head up even) in her soft ice cream and gave it to him.
I was so horrified I nearly said something... but didn't as they looked like the sort of family who may have hit me hard in the face. The baby was in a car seat which is one of my pet hates, too.

TY TC...but she is fine now. Was not affected by teh incident. Probably had a more profound effect on me than her...as you can probably tell from my post above.

Upright buggy the same.

Babies shouldn't be allowed to have a piercing before say 3y, 4y, 5y whatever....but a whole new debate I suspect.

Oh Lord get over yourself!

Baby has ice cream put in his mouth. Whatever next?

my friends lo was given mr whippy by her cousin and poor baby was sick for days My friend didnt know, and i explained why and she felt bad.
Travel systems are my pet hate too, babies should be laying flat when poosible its so bad for their little spines. However, if your nippin out for an hour its understandabloe.

They should be castrated.

at headband! There's no need for that.

Horrified is a much overused word imo. And this thread is a classic example of its overuse.

So many perfect mothers on mn ..careful your halos don't slip

" Lauriefairycake
greenmonkies - why aren't you supposed to allow them to suck from a bottle in their hand on a towel on their chest?"

See, I am not going to take this bait, as I know you are only joking to try to wind me up, and in fact you know that a small baby should never be left drinking from a propped bottle. (Different if they can hold it themselves)

priceyp

"As for the car seat and rocking it with a foot, my goodness, how dare people try to get their babies off to sleep."

Umm, hold the baby? Instead of leaving it strapped in a plastic bucket, pick it up!!!! I even see people holding the car seat on thier laps and rocking it or talking to the baby. What?? Undo the straps, pick the baby up and hold it! I refer you to page 22 of the "Red Book" (which I am fairly sure is the same all over the UK) where it says "You can't spoil a small baby. So don't feel guilty about cuddling and comforting your baby when you want to." Why are we (as a society) so reluctant to give our babies the comfort, security and stimulation they crave by holding them, preferring to keep them at arms length in chairs, carseats and prams? So yes, I get frustrated and sad when I see small babies strapped in carseats being jiggled by a parents foot. Babies need physical contact, not to be kept at arms length.

Nobody is a perfect parent.

Dracula, thanks for all that information. Very useful to know.

Snort TClanger - Thatcher, Thatcher ice cream bringer.....

I heard on radio 5 live the other day about a woman who's little one had all her teeth apart from a couple out by 5.

Apparantly she would not eat anything apart from strawberry milk shakes and polo mints from a very young age

Ice cream! Child abuse, surely?

Greenmonkies you are absolutely right. I agree. I was being tongue in cheek, I realise now that didn't come off. I love it when mine fall asleep on me [squishy emoticon]

You are right to be horrified whatever next!!!!!

You're not telling me Mrs T saved all that off milk and made it into Mr Whippy? Speaking as my child self, she did a fine day's work to stop people feeding us that disgusting milk, congealed around the top and heated to radiator temperature. I loathed it and dreaded milk time every day. Hurrah for milk snatching!!

priceyp

Sorry I went off on one, it just really bugs me!!

dooodle

I am!!

Im totally confused!
My little one had a very nasty cold when she was 2 weeks old, couldn't breathe properly if laid down, and I was advised by Midwife, Healthvistor & Doctor to sleep baby in carseat at night to help her breathe, and so we did for a week, and she was fine and from that moment slept all through the night.
She is now 2 and has absolutley no problems whatsoever???
Why would they sell car seats like that if it wasn't safe for a baby to be in??
Sorry if anyones already mentioned this!
Have pregnant lady brain!

ohmygod
acarseat

nom nom nom

I love Mr Whippy

A car seat? ICE CREAM? Why didn't you call social services?

I also don't understand why popping a bottle up for a baby is so terrible, I've even seen special bottle cushion things you can buy to prop a bottle up.

"By SilkCutMama on Thu 09-Oct-08 20:43:03
I'm afraid this is the way to have a non-fussy baby with food. I think you are being a tad judgemental

I let my ds taste food from a very early age and now he will eat anything

sorry"

Your experience of one baby is not statistically enlightening, SCM. Don't pretend it is.